CHAPTER XII
The Coming Of The Milligans
TO the moment of Grandma Pike's departure, all their neighbours had been so pleasant that the girls were deceived into thinking that neighbours were never anything but pleasant. Although they felt not the slightest misgiving as to their future neighbours, they had hated to lose dear old Grandma Pike, who had always been as good to them as if she had really been their grandmother, and whose parting gifts, sundry odds and ends of dishes, old magazines and broken parcels of provisions, gave them occupation for many delightful days. In spite of the lasting pleasure of this unexpected donation, however, they could not help feeling that, with Mr. Black away, Miss Blossom gone, Mrs. Pike living in another
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